Born2BKing
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IT salesman make big fukking bank. That's a hot industry right now. Medical device sales is another one. I have a homie clearing nearly 85k working for Phillips Electronics selling them.
Anyone here work in Pharmaceutical Sales? I'm trying to get in!
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IT salesman make big fukking bank. That's a hot industry right now. Medical device sales is another one. I have a homie clearing nearly 85k working for Phillips Electronics selling them.
the bossman
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Born2BKing said:
The sales folks at my IT shop
very well. At my company the straight sales folks have no base salary but I hear they get something like 8 or 9% commission on each deal. A litle bit more depending on if they make their target for the quarter. They're the ones who generate the leads, cold calls, establish/maintain customer relationships etc.Presales engineers or solutions archiects here have a decent base salary but with a smaller commission percentage for deals that they help the sales folks close. Their jobs are to provide solution designs to the customer, technical assistance to the sales folk when the customer has technical questions beyond them, and to do demos and proof of concepts type shyt for the customer, etc.
Im the engineer or post-sales engineer if you will. Once the salesperson & pre-sales engineer close the deal. project manager & I gotta come in and make the solution work. while I make a good salary(little over six figs), I get 0 commission. No matter how big the deal.
Even though they have no base salary, the sales folk typically end up making way more than engineers
Right now I'm working on a cisco solution that we sold to about 3 hospitals so far. Each of these projects is a $0.75 million -$1 million+ deal and from what I'm hearing around the office they've got a couple more in the pipeline coming. So if a sales person is getting even 7% off each deal....
I told myself I need to work on my presentation & soft skills so I can go over to the sales side, after 3 or 4 more years of this. Makes no sense doing all this grunt work or cleaning up the sales teams mess promising the customer heaven & earth, while the nikka in sales is making 2 or 3 times more for the same projects jus taking the customer out for dinner or shots.
Born2BKing
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Just spoke with a coworker who told me a friend of hers works in medical sales and made $210,000 last year. I asked how this girl got in and she says, well she was a secretary and the boss liked her and just put her in the job. Of course she is a 31 year old white girl and had no damn experience. White privilege wins again. 
the bossman
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Just spoke with a coworker who told me a friend of hers works in medical sales and made $210,000 last year. I asked how this girl got in and she says, well she was a secretary and the boss liked her and just put her in the job. Of course she is a 31 year old white girl and had no damn experience. White privilege wins again.
thats life bruh. my pops always used to say for every mile the white man walks, you gotta walk 10 miles 
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Pharm sales is a good industry, but they are usually regarded as pests by the medical community unfortunately. You do get to build good relationships with doctors though, so its cool. You can make alot of money with Pharm sales, but you can get laid off with the quickness as well. Not sure if i would recommend it as a career, but if you do get into the industry be prepared to work your ass off.
P.S. It also helps if your attractive and is probably the huge inital barrier. Most of the pharm reps i run into are ex models, cheerleaders, etc..
P.S. It also helps if your attractive and is probably the huge inital barrier. Most of the pharm reps i run into are ex models, cheerleaders, etc..
was gonna say its a female driven industry no?